<p style="text-align: left;">…tender bid for the first 65.10 km of backlog/rehabilitation intervention published.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The Ekiti State Government has commenced work on its proposed 1,000-kilometer rural road project across the state, with the advertisement of a bid for the first of 65.10 kilometers of backlog and rehabilitation intervention, covering several communities and farmsteads.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The road project is being carried out under the World Bank-assisted Rural Access and Agriculture Marketing Project (RAAMP), with counterpart funding from the state government.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Under the project, a total of 1,000 kilometers of rural roads would be fixed to enhance the easy transportation of farm produce to markets.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The rural road construction is in line with Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s plan to ensure that rural roads receive similar attention as roads in urban areas in order to enhance infrastructure upgrades in rural areas and promote agricultural development and food security by linking farms to markets through good roads.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">According to the advertised bid for the first 65.10 kilometers of backlog and rehabilitation, the roads for construction are: Enu Odi-Itenu-Igirigiri Road (8.41 km); Omisanjana-Ben</p>


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Folarin-Oke Aso Road (5.70 km); Ara-Oye Road (8.77 km); Afolu-Odofin Road (1.95 km); Ise-Imola Road (5.30 km); and Owode Anaye Road (2.8 km).

Others are Erinmope-Irare-Ikosun Road (6.68km); Iye-Isapa-Olopomeji-Ikun Road (5.10km); Ara-Ekameta Schol Road (2.05km); Igbole/Osin-Iropora Road (4.60km); Ilupeju-Igbo Egan Road (3.1km); FMS-Oke Ako Road (3.40km); and Ikosi-Aba Osun-Aba Oriokuta-Ikogosi Road (7.19km).

Other interventions coming up before the middle of the year include a 128-kilometer spot improvement intervention and the design of another 100-kilometer backlog/rehabilitation with another 40-kilometer upgrade intervention.

Governor Oyebanji, who hails the commencement of the project as timely, urges communities and farmsteads that are not covered under the first phase of the project to exercise patience as they will be covered in subsequent phases in line with the agriculture and rural development agenda of his administration.

Olayinka Oyebode

Special Adviser, Media to the Governor

February 28, 2024